Collaborations and Contributions

Render unto our peers, colleagues, students, and research participants the respect that
they deserve.

• To provide assistance to other researchers, especially if we are uniquely qualified to do so by our expertise.

• Respect the confidentiality and proprietary rights of our peers, colleagues, and students whose material we review for publication, presentation, or funding by grant.

• Take diligent care of equipment, material resources, and results.

• Grant authorship in accordance with the significance of collaborators’ contribution in the research.

• Appropriately attribute and credit to others their accomplishments and research results which we may have utilized in our own research 

• Acknowledge the material contribution of others in our research undertaking.